Subscribing to faith? : the Anglican parish magazine 1859-1929 /
"This book introduces the reader to a subject which, until now, has been almost totally ignored by scholars. Seeking to change the Cinderella status of parish magazines, the book reveals their importance as a source for the studies of both religion and mass-market publishing. Parish magazines u...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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| Series: | Histories of the sacred and the secular 1700-2000.
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| Summary: | "This book introduces the reader to a subject which, until now, has been almost totally ignored by scholars. Seeking to change the Cinderella status of parish magazines, the book reveals their importance as a source for the studies of both religion and mass-market publishing. Parish magazines usually contained commercially published 'insets', making them a microcosm of the Anglican Church's role as a conduit for national issues into the local community; yet, despite the propagandist potential and wide circulation of such magazines, their content offered subscribers a diet of anxiety and despair over religious and social change, along with a laissez-faire approach to the effects of commercialism. Suffering from a collapse of confidence and vision, and mired in its internecine wars, the Church of England, 1859-1929, eventually proved unable to utilise the technological advances presented by mass-market publishing to its own advantage"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137362438 (hardback) 113736243X (hardback) |